автор: Qiang Yang

Lixin Fan is currently the Chief Scientist of Artificial Intelligence at We Bank, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include machine learning and deep learning, privacy computing and federated learning, computer vision and pattern recognition, image and video processing, mobile computing and ubiquitous computing. He was the Organizing Chair of workshops in these research areas held in CVPR, ICCV, ICPR， ACCV, Neur IPS, AAAI, and IJCAI.  He is the author of 3 edited books and more than 70 articles in peer-review international journals and conference proceedings. He holds more than one hundred patents filed in the United States, Europe and China, and he was Chairman of the IEEE P2894 Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Standard Working Group.   Chee Seng Chan is currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning where he has published more than 100 papers in related top peer-review conferences and journals. He was the Organizing Chair of the Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (2015) and General Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (2019) and IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (2013). He was the recipient of Top Research Scientists Malaysia (TRSM) in 2022, Young Scientists Network Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) in 2015 and Hitachi Research Fellowship in 2013. Besides that, he is also a senior member (IEEE), Professional Engineer (BEM) and Chartered Engineer (IET). During 2020-2022, he was seconded to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) as the Undersecretary for Division of Data Strategic and Foresight.   Qiang Yang is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of We Bank, and Chair Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is the Conference Chair of AAAI-21, Honorary Vice President of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), President of the Hong Kong Society of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (HKSAIR) and President of the Investment Technology League (ITL). He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, CAAI, IEEE, IAPR and AAAS. He was the Founding Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) and the Founding Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (IEEE TBD). He received the ACM SIGKDD Distinguished Service Award in 2017. He served as Founding Director of Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Research Lab from 2012 to 2015, Founding Director of HKUST’s Big Data Institute, Founder of 4Paradigm and President of the IJCAI (2017-2019).  His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining andplanning.